TY  - BOOK
AU  - Owen,John
AU  - Ross,Philip
TI  - The priesthood of Christ
SN  - 9781845505998
AV  - BT254.R825.P754 2010 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - [Fearn, Ross-shire]
PB  - Christian Heritage
KW  - Jesus Christ
N1  - "The contents of this book first appeared as an excursus in John Owen's exposition of Hebrews"--"This Edition."; Christian Heritage is an imprint of Christian Focus Publications; Introduction --; A.A map for the road --; B. People to meet, issues to face --; 'Socinianism'? --; Relevance to today? --; I. The office of priesthood --; A.A unique emphasis on Christ's priesthood --; A mysterious doctrine --; Why focus on this subject? --; Not the pope's favourite doctrine --; A comprehensive endeavour --; B. Biblical terms for 'priest' --; Divination and soothsaying --; The priests of Egypt --; A princely title --; Melchizedek --; the first priest --; C.A priest is a sacrificer --; II. The origin of the priesthood of Christ --; A. Not in Eden --; No sacrifices --; no priests --; No sin --; no sacrifices --; no priests --; Priests would have hindered worship --; No metaphorical killing --; Sacrifice means slaying --; Sacrifices require faith in divine revelation --; B. Incarnation and the state of innocence --; Incarnation without respect to redemption rejected --; C. Arguments for incarnation in the state of innocence refuted --; 'It would have perfected creation' --; 'Human nature was capable of the grace of union in the state of innocence' --; 'God revealed the mystery of the incarnation to Adam' --; 'God decreed Christ should assume human nature before He decreed to save the elect' --; D. Osiander's arguments refuted --; 'God created Adam in conformity with Christ's destined human nature' --; 'Christ would have been made in the image of Adam' --; 'The incarnation becomes dependent on an accident' --; 'Man in innocence needed a way to heaven' --; E. Arguments that sacrifice is vital to all religion refuted --; No propitiatory sacrifices before the Fall --; F. Priesthood presupposes sin; III. The priesthood of Christ --; its origin n the counsel of God --; A. God, in the creation of man, glorified Himself in three distinct persons --; 'Let us make man' --; Plurality of persons in the Creator --; No mere kingly speech --; Woeful mistakes and foolish conjectures --; B. The Socinian arguments of Enjedinus --; C. Personal transactions in the Trinity --; From the beginning --; Christ was beside the Father --; IV. Federal transactions between the Father and the Son --; A. Covenants between God and man --; Terms for covenant --; Covenant signs --; Covenant essentials --; Inequality and subordination in covenanters --; B. The covenant between the Father and the Son --; Subordination i the covenant --; According to their own counsel --; Not necessary to God --; An act of perfect liberty for the Son --; One will acts distinctly in the Father and the Son --; They have power to fulfill the covenant --; The matter of the covenant --; to save sinners --; The end of the covenant --; God's glory --; The Son uniquely honoured --; Promises of reward --; Prescriptions of obedience --; C.A sacrifice to satisfy divine justice --; According to the heavenly transcript --; Indispensably necessary --; V. The priesthood of Christ --; its necessity on the supposition of sin and grace --; A. The nature of righteousness --; The righteousness of God in itself --; The righteousness of God in operation --; B. Divine righteousness --; C. Defines Christ's priesthood --; The attributes of God in operation --; Answering Socinian objections to the justice of God --; Answering Socinian objections to the righteousness of God --; Virgin Islands Did Christ suffer what sinners should have suffered? --; A. The doctrine of the satisfaction of Christ --; Our criminal indebtedness --; Christ underwent our punishment --; B. Objections to the doctrine --; 'Christ could not undergo eternal death' --; 'Deliverance should immediately follow payment' --; 'Payment and remission must respect the same person'; VII. The necessity of the priesthood of Christ --; A. All men know that sin requires punishment --; Demonstrated in sacrifices --; God's anger declares His justice --; B. Why should sin be punished? --; God hates sin --; God is a consuming fire --; God cannot allow His glory to be impeached --; God is the righteous judge of all --; C. Why Christ's priesthood is necessary --; His death is useless otherwise --; D. Conclusion --; Virgin IslandsII. The nature of the priesthood of Christ --; A. Attempts to set aside Christ's sacrifice --; B. The high priest of the church --; By name --; A real and proper priest --; C. God --; the primary object --; The plain sense of Christ's offices --; The obvious nature of priestly acts and duties --; Christ had something to offer --; D. Christ's call to the priesthood --; His inauguration to the priestly office --; His discharge of the priestly office --; Scriptural confirmation --; IX. The nature of the priesthood of Christ --; A. Socinians in their own words --; Versus the church's faith --; No empty title --; No New Testament silence --; No kingly act --; B. How the kingly and priestly offices differ --; According to Crellius --; According to scripture --; C. Deny Christ's priesthood --; deny His glory --; D. Smalcius' apology for the Holy Spirit --; X. The acts of the priesthood of Christ --; A. General acts --; Oblation --; Intercession --; B. The time and place of Christ's priesthood --; On the earth --; Whenever and wherever He made atonement --; On His entrance into heaven --; Other priests were types of Christ --; Denials that Christ was a priest on earth --; C. The object --; God --; XI. Prefigurations of the priesthood and sacrifice of Christ --; A. Before the law --; Individual sacrifice --; Corporate sacrifice --; Who were those priests? --; B. Throughout the world --; How priests were appointed --; Ancient Egypt; 2
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